I have a building that is going to end at my layout’s facia, facing an aisle. I had planned on making the aisle side wall out of cardboard.
What is the best treatment for this walll?
Paint it to match the facia?
Paint it to match the building?
Something else entirely?
Nick
you could leave that wall open and detail the inside of the building.
Great idea Cheese. Anything less will look chopped off. Plus there are so few chances to do interiors where they can be seen.
If you don’t want to detail a cut away building, then as long as the building isn’t too tall above the layout’s edge, just let the facia act as the concealed isle wall. The building shape will be silhouetted by the shape of the facia. Raised front facias can act as backdrops for city scenes within reason.
Bob K.
thank you, everyonce in a while i can come up with some good ideas [;)][:p]
Thank you for the ideas…
I’m not ready to do an interior yet (the building is a brewery). So I’ll probably paint the blank wall to match the facia, and maybe do a detailed interior later.
Nick
Nick,
Make sure you make the wall removeable just in case you decide to detail the interior
later. I truly think that once you have the facia on you will want to detail the brewery. I have
plans, on the new layout that I will be starting this summer, to detail some of the structures that
will be along the layout edges. I have always thought this was a cool feature on layouts. It
adds some “eye candy” for visitors and for yourself as well. Good luck. Dave
It could be a neat idea to paint the fascia to look like a cross section of the basement or subbasement of the building. Linn Westcott used to draw layouts where the fascia was drawn to look like a cross section of rock and geologic formation. Somewhere recently, MR or GMR or MRP, someone painted their fascia to look like an open concrete culvert. where appropriate. It is one way to give a layout the appearance of more horizontal variety
Dave Nelson